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...first serious rift between Britain's Big Business and Big Business Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain developed last week when Lord Weir, adviser to the Air Ministry and to the Cabinet Committee of Imperial Defense, resigned both posts. Reason: protest against Prime Minister Chamberlain's ouster of Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary fortnight ago. Lord Swinton was not getting Britain rearmed in the air as fast as the House of Commons thought he should...
...Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher (Laborite), Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears (Conservative); and Mr. Mark Patrick, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Eden's intensely loyal Under Secretary Viscount Cranborne...
...long imminent reshuffle of the Chamberlain Cabinet came this week, hastened by heavy debating pressure upon His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons. Charges that Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary has made a muddle of his end of British Rearmament were hurled even by some M.P.s of the Government's own Conservative Party, by many Liberal and Labor M.P.s...
...have long been marked as comparatively youthful "comers." In the dropping out of Peers Swinton and Harlech was seen an effort to give the Chamberlain Cabinet a more "democratic" guise before a General Election becomes necessary. This week London papers began saying openly that for this same reason Viscount Halifax may soon be succeeded as Foreign Secretary by a "commoner," possibly even by Vote Getter Anthony Eden...
Married. Anne Ferelith Bowes-Lyon, 20, niece of England's Queen Elizabeth; and Viscount Anson, 25, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; in London, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. On hand were Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose...